Gino D’Acampo has been accused of humiliating a female dancer by asking her for a threesome and making inappropriate comments while filming his latest ITV programme with Fred Sirieix.
The This Morning star, 48, is facing allegations from dozens of people who have worked with him over a 12-year period on various programmes, with complaints of alleged bullying and sexually inappropriate comments.
His alleged behaviour has been described by some people as ‘unacceptable,’ ‘distressing’ and ‘horrendous’.
D’Acampo has ‘firmly denied’ the allegations, and said they are ‘deeply upsetting’.
ITV has pulled all his upcoming shows from their schedules, but a clip from filming his latest ITV show with I’m A Celebrity star Fred has emerged.
It’s claimed D’Acampo was hit with an official complaint while filming after he suggested a threesome with a female dancer, in a video obtained by The Sun.
It shows D’Acampo and Fred in Austria for their new show Emissions Impossible, in footage from October 2023.
While on stage with a female dancer as well as her boyfriend and a second man, D’Acampo can be heard making lewd comments.
‘Why don’t you just have a threesome,’ he asks her, to which she firmly says ‘No’.
He then asks the audience: ‘Everybody happy?’
‘Not me,’ she replies, while Fred urges D’Acampo to ‘bow’ from the stage.
In another clip, D’Acampo tells the two other men that he could ‘get your girl without moving a finger’, and then asks her if she prefers ‘Italian men or French men’.
When she replies with ‘My boyfriend’, he repeats the question, adding: ‘No, forget about your boyfriend.’
The Sun claims after the interaction, the family-based dance company complained to the production crew, with a production crew member saying: ‘The show was subject to a number of complaints from contributors and crew. These were escalated to ITV when filming was halted after a week on location in Austria.
‘This was supposedly due to Gino’s ill health. But there were already concerns about his behaviour when the shoot was pulled.
‘As part of this show Gino and Fred were going to watch them rehearse, before joining them on stage for a performance in front of the audience.
‘The scene was obviously chosen for its comical nature, but Gino was briefed beforehand to be respectful.
‘You can see in the video that the dancers are visibly uncomfortable during filming and Gino made a number of sexually inappropriate comments to them.’
It’s claimed that after the incident, ITV and the production company carried out a review of their duty of care protocols and new measures were put in place.
The show completed filming in June, and aired in December, however, the clips obtained by The Sun did not feature in the final edit.
Reports in 2023 had claimed filming for Emission Impossible was halted after D’Acampo was in a horror crash that left ‘blood everywhere’ when he had been sliding down 200ft on a toboggan holding a cocktail class.
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D’Acampo is best known for appearing on shows including This Morning, Let’s Do Lunch and Gino’s Italian Escape.
Since 2018 he’s also fronted Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip alongside Fred and Gordon Ramsay, which follows the trio visiting various countries and cities and exploring local culture and cuisine.
It was reported in December that he was ‘slowly being sidelined’ by ITV after allegedly facing a string of inappropriate behaviour claims made against him.
Following the allegations, ITV said in a statement: ‘All of the concerns and complaints raised by those who have spoken to ITN describe behaviour which is inappropriate and unacceptable. Most of them were not reported to ITV at the time. Where issues have been raised with ITV action has been taken.’
D’Acampo has responded to the full claims with a statement: ‘I have been told by ITN news that allegations have been made about me acting inappropriately, some dating back over ten years ago.
‘I have never been made aware of these matters previously and the allegations are firmly denied. I would not do anything that I thought would upset or distress anyone. This is simply not in my nature. I do not recognise the version of events being put to me.
‘Not only have these allegations never been raised with me before, I have been repeatedly supported by executives at the highest level and was commissioned on prime-time programmes during the period in which it is now suggested I was acting inappropriately.
‘I am a father, husband and have worked with well over 1,500 people on around 80 productions in my career, which I have been so proud of. I take such matters extremely seriously and the suggestion that I have acted in an improper way against is deeply upsetting.’
Metro has contacted ITV and D’Acampo’s representatives for comment.
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